<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/44621e96-3866-485a-8409-79dec1e0c0c4/D3EA279B-9104-4A2B-8A69-41793D5B29A5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><DIV class="mxb"> <H1> Iceland looks to serve the world </H1> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8297237.stm"><P><B>Since the financial crisis, Iceland has been forced to retreat back from high octane bubble living to nature.</B></P><P>Fortunately, there is a lot of that nature to retreat to. </P><P>It is a breathtaking world of volcanoes, endless prairies and ethereal winter landscapes. </P><P>Not, you might think, the most obvious place to stick millions of the world's computer servers which are, for all their uses, rather less attractive. </P><P>But the country now wants exactly that - to become home to the world's computing power. </P><P>Behind all the large internet companies lurk massive and ever growing data centres chock full of servers churning away. </P><P>Google for instance is thought to have around a million of the things, but even less IT intensive operations, banks for example, need hundreds of thousands of servers to store all their data.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D3EA279B-9104-4A2B-8A69-41793D5B29A5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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